re: At what point in history did Democrats and Republicans switch sides?(Posted by RollTide1987 on 11/13/12 at 3:52 pm to FT)

quote:Republicans were the liberals.

Very few Republicans were in favor of equality. A huge platform of the Republican Party was to free the slaves and ship them all back to Africa. That was a serious item up for discussion in 1854-1863 or so.